does lou lamoriello honestly believe that this team can win a stanley cup? look at this sh!t team.....its a joke.

it seems lou is content in having one of those middling teams that makes the playoffs some years and promptly get bounced out, or scrapes and claws its way through the end of the year only to get eliminated from playoff contention after losing a deciding regular season game to the fvcking carolina hurricanes in some stupid anti-climatic playoff "push", after marty goddamn brodeur lets in a goal with 3.8 seconds left in the motherfvcking game.

why we are keeping this piece of trash team afloat with guys like fvcking jaromir jagr or michael ryder? are you kidding me with this lou?

jagr is a guy that the boston bruins acquire on their way to a stanley cup run. he should not be a team's leading motherfvcking scorer!

and the worst part is it's not going to get any better! what do i have to look forward to next year? a solid young defense and a good goaltender, ok, yes.....where are the goals gonna come from lou?! this forward unit is pathetic group. there's no way that they can be counted on to score for sh!t.

my question to lou is this: when did it become acceptable for you to ice mediocre teams that have NO chance in winning a stanley cup?

Can we just lock this thread now? Because I have a feeling as to where this one's going. All I gotta say to the OP is go be a Rangers fan, please.

LL did the best he could with the unknown's this summer. He took us to a SCF just two years ago, I think that bought him some slack. If this team was a 25-30th team, I'd think people would start jumping off bridges. Christ...pretty sure we were just over .500 in mid December in the 11-12 season...I assume that season was a waste too since they only had won a couple more games than we have this year.........

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Even when Marty comes back maybe Larry should put Clemmensen to be on the goal during the shootouts.Can the coach do that ? Switch the goalies 5 seconds to go in overtime? - Most priceless quote ever posted on a message board.

Martin Brodeur: THE MOST ALL-TIME WINS!, 12 straight seasons of 30+ wins, 3 Stanley Cups, 4 Vezina Trophies, and zero respect from too many so-called Devils "fans" who are either too young or too bandwagon to remember the much darker days of Sean Burke, Craig Billington, Bob Sauve, Alain Chevrier, and the talented but overwhelmed Chico Resch, among many others.

It's easy to support a great player when he's playing at his very best. It takes a true fan to support that same player during those rare moments and stretches when he's not. Babe Ruth went 0-4 some games, and sometimes Wayne Gretzky was held pointless. There may be such a thing as greatness, but no such thing as absolute perfection every single night.

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buddy i am loyal........this team just sucks so bad compared to what i grew up with. we would just dominate teams.... now we have to scrap and claw with the fvcking columbus blue jackets.

stevens and niedermayer........forget about it. games were OVER after the first period.

Did you watch the game last night? We didn't scrape and claw, the reason we lost is a poor goalie choice by PDB. That was not the best team that we could put out on the ice. The best team we could put out on the ice wins that game probably 3-2/3-1 or 4-2.

Also Columbus isn't that terrible, pretty sure they spanked the wild 4-0 a few nights ago.

The Devils got Stevens and Niedermayer by trade and free agent compensation. Well, RFAs don't get signed for any compensation besides draft picks, and teams don't trade next year's first round pick during the regular season anymore. Meanwhile, everyone who ever scored 30 goals in a season for the Devils plays somewhere else or not at all.

buddy i am loyal........this team just sucks so bad compared to what i grew up with. we would just dominate teams.... now we have to scrap and claw with the fvcking columbus blue jackets.

stevens and niedermayer........forget about it. games were OVER after the first period.

Did you think that was just going to go on forever? Welcome to a down cycle (and you just saw the Devils get to a Cup final BTW). All teams have them, and like you noted in your initial post, some pieces are starting to come through the system. It may not be as long a down period as you think.

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THE NHL MUST LOVE THE DEVILS - from who else? A RANGER fan![Mark Messier]: A big, bald attention whore with a stupid Easter Island-lookin face. - from who else? DaneykoIsGod!

Even when Marty comes back maybe Larry should put Clemmensen to be on the goal during the shootouts.Can the coach do that ? Switch the goalies 5 seconds to go in overtime? - Most priceless quote ever posted on a message board.

Martin Brodeur: THE MOST ALL-TIME WINS!, 12 straight seasons of 30+ wins, 3 Stanley Cups, 4 Vezina Trophies, and zero respect from too many so-called Devils "fans" who are either too young or too bandwagon to remember the much darker days of Sean Burke, Craig Billington, Bob Sauve, Alain Chevrier, and the talented but overwhelmed Chico Resch, among many others.

It's easy to support a great player when he's playing at his very best. It takes a true fan to support that same player during those rare moments and stretches when he's not. Babe Ruth went 0-4 some games, and sometimes Wayne Gretzky was held pointless. There may be such a thing as greatness, but no such thing as absolute perfection every single night.

#30 FOREVER!

20 out of 1,946 njdevs.com members agree: CR1976 is the Most Knowledgable Poster of 2008! Victory is mine...oh yes, victory is mine!

As "bad" as some folks feel this team is currently, it is no where near the "bad" of the early eighties. Now that was bad and sad. Presently, we are in a lousy bump in the road in the life of the organization.

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DewSo long and thanks for all the fish. TIMEX RULES!!

"When we were struggling at the beginning of the year we were wondering what was wrong and trying to find reasons. At the end of the day, all we had to do was look in the mirror and the answers were right there." -- Sergei Brylin 12/2/2007

As "bad" as some folks feel this team is currently, it is no where near the "bad" of the early eighties. Now that was bad and sad. Presently, we are in a lousy bump in the road in the life of the organization.

The difference back then was that there was no expectations...the team coming to NJ was bad and everyone knew it. And everyone also knew it was going to take several years and drafts before the team would be a playoff contender. It's also hard to ice a team as bad as those early Devils teams...just like you don't see the true powerhouse teams anymore, you also don't see truly god-awful '83-'84 Devils-type teams either. Much more parity now.

Expectations have been high here for so long, some people don't know how to lower them. The days of the Devils being an automatic playoff team are over. They're a team that's going to have to fight and claw to get in. But at least they're not DOA...the early Devils teams had no chance of competing, and everyone knew it before the first puck had even been dropped.

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THE NHL MUST LOVE THE DEVILS - from who else? A RANGER fan![Mark Messier]: A big, bald attention whore with a stupid Easter Island-lookin face. - from who else? DaneykoIsGod!

Even when Marty comes back maybe Larry should put Clemmensen to be on the goal during the shootouts.Can the coach do that ? Switch the goalies 5 seconds to go in overtime? - Most priceless quote ever posted on a message board.

Martin Brodeur: THE MOST ALL-TIME WINS!, 12 straight seasons of 30+ wins, 3 Stanley Cups, 4 Vezina Trophies, and zero respect from too many so-called Devils "fans" who are either too young or too bandwagon to remember the much darker days of Sean Burke, Craig Billington, Bob Sauve, Alain Chevrier, and the talented but overwhelmed Chico Resch, among many others.

It's easy to support a great player when he's playing at his very best. It takes a true fan to support that same player during those rare moments and stretches when he's not. Babe Ruth went 0-4 some games, and sometimes Wayne Gretzky was held pointless. There may be such a thing as greatness, but no such thing as absolute perfection every single night.

#30 FOREVER!

20 out of 1,946 njdevs.com members agree: CR1976 is the Most Knowledgable Poster of 2008! Victory is mine...oh yes, victory is mine!

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